How to Use biogeography in a Sentence

biogeography

noun
  • This is a story of biogeography as well as medicine and public health, and of the consequences of human travel and transport.
    — National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2016
  • Crutsinger also says drones can be useful for studying biogeography, or the distribution of species.
    — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2017
  • By then, his earlier work on island biogeography was taking on a terrifying new importance.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But such studies can be hard to publish in prominent journals, which favor studies of ecology, biogeography, or conservation.
    — Byemiliano Rodríguez Mega, science.org, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Helmus has exploited the rugged Anolis lizards to upend island biogeography theory.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2014
  • The result is a record of mountain biogeography from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution—a unique baseline for gauging the changes since then.
    — Tim Appenzeller, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
  • By weighing all the factors, positive and negative, island biogeography was able to model the probability and frequency of extinctions.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2014
  • The implications of this theory of island biogeography and other studies rippled outward to other fields of inquiry, and Wilson began making connections among a wide range of species.
    — Patricia Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Transoceanic species dispersal and implications for marine biogeography.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
  • As fungal networks come into focus, one thing that remains little known, especially in comparison with our understanding of plants and animals, is their global biodiversity and biogeography.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Modern biogeography---the study of the distribution of species---still relies heavily on the above map, despite the fact that it was drawn by the field's founder, Alfred Russel Wallace, in 1876.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2012
  • The experiment was designed to test the theory of island biogeography, which Wilson and his collaborator Robert MacArthur first described in the 1960s.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2014
  • Overview of the history of discovery, taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of Majungasaurus crenatissimus from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar.
    — Fox News, 3 Dec. 2019

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